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Letter
# 23
Subj.: Station
Casinos Plans
Sent: Tuesday July 18 2000 10:03 PM
From: # 23-LV
To <ncda@fiax.net>
As a dealer working at the Santa Fe Hotel in Las Vegas for
ten years, the announcement that Stations purchased the Santa Fe
was good news until I took a look at Stations web Site
www.stationcasinos.com and looked at the page "Questions and
Answers" for present Santa Fe workers. It was a sad bunch of
statements made by Stations and only mentioned on their web site.
Of course the Lowdens sent all employees a copy of the WARN
ACT, and that's about it. The media was never told of the
intentions of Stations in regards of what will become of the
current staff, only the web site. This makes you feel pretty bad
knowing that that is all you receive for ten years....a
termination slip. Of course you may reapply with Stations, but no
guarantee of being hired, or if hired no promise of working at the
Santa Fe- The existing employees of Stations have priority over
you, if they want a transfer, they get it first. You have to start
all over again, you lose all benefits like vacation insurance,
sick day pay and floating holidays. That's really hard to swallow
considering you did absolutely nothing wrong.
The failure of the Santa Fe happened only because of the
Lowden management team was calling all the wrong shots. So the
little people get the shaft. What better reason is there to have a
Union. And just think about it, here's an ex-Senator that is the
person behind this. It would have been very easy to leave
employees alone and let them be evaluated by Stations after the
takeover. Stations is surely wise enough to know that the Lowdens
have destroyed every property they ever owned or ran. And
then to top it off, did Stations feel they spent $204 million to
acquire incompetent employees that do not meet their standards?
What a cop-out! Half the dealers working at Texas Station
were already fired from the Santa Fe years ago.
Bottom line is that the bean counters are too cheap to keep
employees that have earned the few meager benefits they now
receive. Is this going to set a precedent of what other casinos
can do to rid themselves of old employees? Just lease out your
casino for 5 months, go on a vacation and when you return all the
old-time help will be gone. Good for somebody trying to keep these
heartless corporate money-mongers in line.
I'll be first to hope a Union can keep this from happening
and ruining lives of so many people that have worked so hard with
this handicapped management they had to work under. Let's
see if the lawmakers care about making a law about this type of
takeover. If you have any suggestions of what road to take , or
any existing laws, or any type of advice about this, please let us
know.
Thank You, # 23-LV
***NFGE
Response***
This is a tough
problem and we have to do some research and make some inquiries.
We promise to be addressing this problem soon. If anyone out
there has some ideas, let's hear them.
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